Thursday, March 20, 2014

Photos of construction work at Tall Oaks Stucco Wasteland Shopping Center, courtesy of Confidential Restonian Operative "Joel," can mean only one thing: another tenant is leaving. This time it's the chiropractor, who's apparently moving to an office building near some less-traveled spot called... "The Reston Town Center"? Never heard of it.

That's more bad news for the increasingly empty shopping center, which lost the last of its international grocery stories selling sexist bread three years ago. (The chiropractor must have lost a lot of walk-in traffic after "Susie de los Santos" stopped coming in for adjustments.) And apparently the folks who own the center are not interested in selling. Presumably they're biding their time, waiting for Metro to open, at some point, to unleash some awesome bollardy redevelopment goodness on us all, but still: